Well the continent of South America is loaded with racism, probably up there amongst the highest in the planet. In fact everywhere outside of Europe is obsessed with its own heritage. So Europeans are just catching up and waking up.

If someone was violent to you because of your heritage then they were arseholes, however this 'I'm a victim' doesn't wash with me.

My family was subjected to violent racism in Brixton when I was growing up so we moved out to an all white area....problem gone.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 May 2019 7.24pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Lads, stop a minute. We've all over looked the most important thing:

It's Danny Baker.

f*** him!

You've no idea what I think, and you haven't answered my question, which was whether you think Prince Phillip is a racist. Stirlingsays says that he hopes he is a racist (somewhat bizarrely in my opinion) but I'm interested to know if you think he is.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Galv, I used to be a regular at your business years ago so I have no desire to argue, but, don’t you think it would be career and social suicide to tweet that with racist intent if he was completely aware of how the public were going to see a chimp and think,

‘Hang on, the mother is mixed race (half black), and you’ve just committed the typical lowest level of racism by saying it’s a monkey or like a monkey or whatever because it’s part black?’

Do you really believe he’d do that, or he’d be so stupid to do that? He’s an intelligent person who’s grown up amongst normal people. I’d believe someone could do that if they lived a sheltered life, but not with a racist intent, knowing the result within minutes.

Sometimes funny or very intelligent people get carried away and do or say things that people don’t get or see because they get carried away with their talent effect on people. This is my take on how he made this error. Having said that, he essentially works for the taxpayer so if he didn’t see what the effect would be and he’s capable of making that mistake then I have no objections to his contract being cancelled.

Like DB said, the idea that he would tweet that knowing the history of black abuse in this country with that intent is completely nuts. Why would he do that. Makes no sense.

COYP

I checked out joe.co.uk on Facebook earlier because it gets a balance of both sides, because it was originally just a football only site before the t1t who runs it went all lefty political with pro remain and Corbyn cr@p. Anyway, there were what looked like 50 something women being outraged. I bet they haven’t even heard or read DB’s explanation, because they want the outrage.

COYP

And now the police are investigating his tweet. Good to see they are adequately resourced to sort out important matters.